| v> | | | | - gives pain relief |
| | | | - releases suppressed feelings |
| When our daily lives become stressful, this is a | | | | - treats the symptoms of illness |
| sign our energies are not balanced. Reiki healing | | | | |
| therapy aims to bring our energies into balance | | | | If you want to receive a Reiki healing treatment, |
| and bring health and well-being to our emotional, | | | | here is what you can expect in a typical healing |
| physical and spiritual systems. | | | | session. The healer or practitioner will hold her |
| Reiki Healing: Using the power of human touch. | | | | hands on you or above you while you are fully |
| | | | | clothed and lying down on a couch. The healer |
| Reiki is a healing technique or therapy designed to | | | | moves their hands over your body channeling the |
| reduce stress and promote relaxation and peace | | | | energy to the required place to bring about |
| of mind. The word Reiki is made up of two | | | | healing. The healer is able to know where to go |
| Japanese words — Rei which means | | | | by allowing themselves to be spiritually guided to |
| Higher Power or Wisdom and the word | | | | the relevant area of the body. The effect of |
| Ki which means life force energy. | | | | this technique is a warm feeling or tingling |
| Everything around us is composed of this energy. | | | | sensation. It is generally a relaxing and soothing |
| | | | | experience. A treatment can last up to an hour |
| When our daily lives become stressful, this is a | | | | or more according to the type of healing required |
| sign our energies are not balanced. Reiki healing | | | | and will often involve the movement of the hands |
| therapy aims to bring our energies into balance | | | | across the body using a number of standard hand |
| and bring health and well-being to our emotional, | | | | positions and covering most of the body’s |
| physical and spiritual systems. It works on the | | | | major organs. |
| assumption that we have natural healing abilities | | | | |
| within our selves and it is the Reiki healing | | | | Should you want to be able to use this simple |
| technique that stimulates this process. The role | | | | technique yourself, you can attend a class where |
| of the practitioner is to channel this universal | | | | it is transferred rather than taught through |
| life energy through to the recipient. | | | | an attunement given by a Reiki Master. |
| | | | | Here the student is given the ability to tap into |
| The founder of this technique was a Principle of a | | | | the universal life energy and to use it to |
| Christian seminary in the middle of the nineteenth | | | | improve one’s own health and wellbeing. |
| century by the name of Mikao Usui. He offered | | | | |
| a set of guidelines for a healthy and peaceful life | | | | Reiki is a simple, safe and non-invasive therapy |
| as well as advocating this technique to redress | | | | that everyone can learn to use and benefit |
| any imbalances in our energy systems that result | | | | from. It has been used to bring relief from a |
| in physical illness or emotional upset or trauma. | | | | number of physical, emotional and spiritual |
| | | | | problems. There is no particular religious |
| Below are some of the benefits of Reiki healing:- | | | | philosophy behind its technique and therefore |
| | | | | anybody can learn to give and receive Reiki |
| - stimulates natural self healing balances energies | | | | healing. Indeed its holistic approach to healing |
| in the body | | | | means it can complement other medical and |
| - gives strength to our immune system | | | | therapeutic techniques. |